Biographie
Eliot Nasrallah is a Franco-Lebanese artist and photographer based in Paris.
Mixing video installations, alternative prints, photographic publications and soundscapes, his work is rooted in the fragilities of intimate and collective narratives related to the territories of the Mediterranean basin, such as Lebanon, Greece or Egypt. By performing back and forth between analog and digital processes, his practice deploys performative devices of staging that question the way in which series of images can carry, replay or rewrite stories, especially in contexts crossed by impermanence or disappearance. From the personal archive to the document image, he explores the plastic and narrative dimensions of the body, both in its modes of representation and through its active role in the construction of an image. His project The last visit received a photographic prize as part of a collaboration between Passepartout Photo Prize and Yogurt Magazine. In 2021, his work Août 2020, Cher Journal, was nominated for the Kassel Dummy Book Award 22.
He is a graduate of the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris and teaches photographic practices at the Duperré School (Paris, France).
Présentation
Since the military coup in 2013, Egypt has experienced escalating authoritarianism compounded by growing religious obscurantism, where all forms of expression are actively monitored, punished, or silenced. The project "Try Again Later" explores the consequences of these restrictions on masculine identities in contemporary Egypt. Recently settled in the Sinai region, where censorship is less visible, six young adults reveal—through reenacted fragments of their daily lives—the latent effects of an authoritarian regime’s decisions. In these intimate spaces, body language and relationships between men gradually give voice to forms of tenderness.